Basics of Multiple Constraint Synchronization
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This comprehensive workshop creates a one-day hands-on learning environment demonstrating how to reduce your inventory investment with proper lot sizing technique while increasing your throughput by scheduling multiple constraints with MCS™. The importance of demand management and proper forecasting technique are covered in detail.

This workshop provides a solid foundation for understanding how lot sizing, generic Kanban, factory layout, capacity constrained resources, bottlenecks, and forecasting interact in the course of attaining superior levels of manufacturing operations performance.

What You Will Learn

How to…

• Reinvent your organization’s mental models, reduce risk and pioneer change throughout your organization
• Identify fundamental differences between system measures and output measures
• Implement product-specific Kanban for work-in-process inventory control and batch-processing operations
• Measure cycle time and processing time
• Effectively control solitary constraint operations and multiple constraint operations
• Implement and control work-in-process in high-mix operations using generic Kanban
• Quantify the effect disruptions have on global system performance
• Control disruptions in your manufacturing environment
• Understand and measure relationships among cycle time, work-in-process, throughput and productivity
• Recognize the differences between stochastic and non-stochastic forecasting technique
• Use simulation-based forecasting to improve customer service and inventory turnover in high-mix manufacturing environments

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for people concerned with the operation or design of the master schedule, sales and operations planning process, job costing, shop floor processes, and execution. This includes industrial engineers, process engineers, cost analysts, shop floor management, planning and scheduling personnel, and especially master schedulers. System designers and business analysts would benefit from this course as well.

Participants: The workshop requires 14-20 people in two teams of 7-10 individuals.

Duration: A full day of interactive learning—from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tuition: $680 per person, including materials

Workshops are offered in both private and public sessions. Ask us about a forum that's right for your organization.